IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF C.M.


158 N.J. Super. 585 (1978)

386 A.2d 913

IN THE MATTER OF THE GUARDIANSHIP OF C.M. A/K/A C.Y.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Passaic County.

April 7, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert Gray for plaintiff Division of Youth and Family Services (Mr. John J. Degnan, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

Ms. Madeline L. Houston of the Passaic County Legal Services, for defendant H.M.


SAUNDERS, J.C.C. (temporarily assigned).

It is well settled law that for the State to temporarily or permanently deprive indigent parents of their children under statutes concerned with dependent and neglected children, without providing counsel, constitutes a fundamental deprivation of procedural due process. Crist v. N.J. Div. Youth and Family Serv., 128 N.J.Super. 402

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